44 stories by "Lucy Cave"
With the floods and pending EU doom lurking in the air, there is nothing like a show at Southbank's London Wonderground to keep your mind off things. If you have ever seen a show at Wondergr…
When I see ‘one man show’ in the description for a production, it is usually enough to put me off, but when I saw ‘choose your own adventure’ before those…
One of the hardest things to do as a reviewer is going into a show when it has so much praise already. You only have to google Iphigenia In Splott to be in a sea of five star reviews. But do…
Slava's Snowshow has become a Christmas staple on the South Bank. Now returning for its fifth year, Slava Polunin's not-so-conventional Christmas tale is meant for fun for all the family, bu…
Briefs are definitely not newbies when it comes to London's Southbank. Back for their fourth year, they plan to unleash their mayhem once more. But what can we expect on their return? If …
Klippies tells the story of two teenage girls, Thandi (Adelayo Adedayo) and Yolandi (Samantha Colley), as they strike up an unlikely friendship during a drought-stricken summer in South Afri…
Loserville follows the story of Michael Dork (Luke Newton) and his friends who are about to change the world… but nobody knows it yet. Michael is on the brink of something that could chang…
When you hear the word ‘Frankenstein’, you never think of the man that actually brought the story (and the infamous monster) to life " but Gods and Monsters, the story about Jame…
Have you ever wanted to see It's A Wonderful Life, but with a better dressed and boldly beautiful character? Then Times Square Angel just might be what you are looking for. The story follows…
Southwark Playhouse is known for taking a little bit of a risk in its shows, and Next Fall starts with a bang…quite literally. The show follows the relationship of Adam (Charlie Condou)…
There is one thing to remember about Robert Llewellyn's Electric Cars Are Rubbish. Aren't They? " and that is the distinct use of punctuation. He states that when his show first began, he ke…
London Wonderground's residency is almost at a close. But to say they have left the best show for last might be a bit of an understatement. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the self professed "all…
Based on the movie of the same name, Dogfight follows the story of self-proclaimed ‘jarhead’ Eddie Birdlace (Jamie Muscato) and his marine buddies as they set out to find the mos…
If you have been past South Bank recently, you would have seen the spectacular offerings of a fairground experience, complete with a rotating bar. But always go deeper into a fairground, bec…
If you were on London's famous South Bank this July, you might have spotted these wonderfully mysterious women roaming around, red briefcases in hand and wearing black trench coats. Well you…
Arthur Miller's The Crucible has always been the go-to play to always get the world talking " and Yaël Farber’s revival is no different. Despite its seventeenth-century storyline, t…
Limbo returns for its second season at London Wonderground. For you out-of-towners, Wonderground is a celebration of all things curious and full of wonders, so you just know its headlining s…
If there is one thing that will put you off of a show before going in, it will be the fact that it is running late. But for the production of Out Of Print I can definitely excuse it; because…
Grease, Saturday Night Fever, Hairspray… These are just three of the films that have sky-rocketed John Travolta into the spotlight over the last few years " and boy, what a gr…
There are some things that you just have to attend at least once in your life " and one of them is the opera. Turandot (or, as a lot of people kept saying to me, "the ‘Nessun DormaR…
If there is one thing you have to know about Henry the Fifth it is that many versions have been told, and that you should give this Unicorn Theatre production some artistic licence because�…
A musical from the 1930s? Yes, you know what that means…I Â am back at the Union Theatre, and I think we can all safely say that this theatre is the only place with the balls to put on e…
I am going to have to give you a bit of a history lesson before I get into this review. Storm In A Flower Vase, based on the novel The Surprising Life Of Constance Spry by Sue Sheppard, is t…
If there is one thing that you need to know about Jekyll and Hyde it’s that there have been many adaptations of this story. Everything from musicals to a modern day "plastic surgeon" J…
On paper, Much Ado About Nothing should be a slick and inspiring affair, filled with great award winning actors and those great theatrical moments that everybody loves Shakespeare for…
